Werder Bremen Housing Pugilists

By: chris | March 13th, 2008

A locker room/training room fight once in a season is excusable. It’s a passionate game played by passionate players. Two brawls between teammates in the same season? That’s not good. Bad, in fact. First it was Carlos Alberto and Boubacar Sanogo, with the former being sent back to Brazil with a nanny for all his troubles (and there were many). Now it appears Diego and Aaron Hunt traded blows after last week’s Rangers defeat. Maybe Werder Bremen needs to hold their own version of “The Contender“. (And if you put your money on anything but the reach of Per Mertesacker, you’re a moron.)

Diego has been no stranger to controversy recently, with an just-this-side-of-intelligent red card for throwing a shoulder check against Eintracht Frankfurt, a game which Eintracht eventually won 1-0. In the middle of his 3 game suspension, Bremen got bent over and spanked vigorously by Stuttgart in a 6-3 loss which saw Bayern’s lead at the top of the table stretch to a healthy 7 points. Now fighting with teammates? Bad Diego.

Hunt, as you can see above, is no stranger to throwing punches - and just for a second, look at that form. Straight right nearly locked out at full extension, perfect placement, hand turned over, chin tucked behind his right shoulder, leverage forward to pull back and fire off another. Clearly this kid has a little pugilism in his background.

Form aside, Aaron isn’t trying to smooth the whole thing over, and is making sure everyone knows how it went down:

“Diego and I had an argument on the pitch because I was disappointed about the game.

“We should not have lost. But I thought it was done.

“In the locker room he then attacked me from behind and punched me in the back.

“I want to make clear that I did not punch him.

“Most of the team was in the locker room and saw what happened. They know how it was and that’s what counts.

“It says something about a person if he attacks you from behind.”

Doesn’t appear everything in Bremen is all butterflies, cupcakes and group hugs, does it now? Certainly can’t help matters going into to the return leg against Rangers Thursday, with a little bit of a hill yet to climb with the score standing at 2-0.

However, it’ll sure as hell be a game to keep an eye on, we may just see another recreation of this……